Business and Administrative Communication 10th Edition by Kitty Locker,Donna Kienzler

تمرين 19

Investigating the Plain Language Act in Federal Agencies
Look at some of the plain language guidelines for some of the agencies listed on the PlainLanguage.gov site, at http://www.plainlanguage.gov/plLaw/fedGovt/index.cfm.
Work in small groups, with each group checking the adaptations of a different agency. Report back to the class. As a class, discuss how different agencies adapt the act to their focus.
In your groups, also look at some of the before and after examples. Share a particularly good one with the class, explaining the changes in the improved message.
You might want to look at the humorous but true nine easy steps to making a sentence unreadable, found at http://www.plainlanguage.gov/testExamples/indexExample.cfm record=6 search=humor.